# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/vallathol-narayana-menon
# Generated: 2026-08-15T09:29:53.554Z

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name: "Vallathol Narayana Menon"
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description: "Vallathol Narayana Menon was a Malayalam poet and one of the triumvirate of modern Malayalam poetry, along with Asan and Ulloor. The honorific Mahakavi was applied to him in 1913 after the publication of his Mahakavya Chitrayogam. He was a nationalist poet and wrote a series of poems on various aspects of the Indian freedom movement. He founded the Kerala Kalamandalam and is credited with revitalising the traditional Keralite dance form known as Kathakali."
tagline: "Indian poet (1878-1958)"
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1878-10-16"
deathDate: "1958-03-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump